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Ever since I joined PGIMER, Chandigarh as a postgraduate resident, automatically I had become a life member of 5 AM Club. Whatever I am today, I attribute it to this 'keystone' habit of mine. Robin Sharma's new book, "The 5 AM club" has further reinforced my belief in rising early in the morning.

Robin Sharma has emerged as a master storyteller ever since his first book "The monk who sold his Ferrari," published way back in 1997. I read that book sometime around the year 2000. And ever since then, I have become his ardent fan. I have the entire collection of his books, and personally, I have been benefitted in every walk of my life. (I hope he does not ask for a royalty!)

Robin created a lot of buzz around this new book for the past four years, and he has lived up to the expectations. "The 5 AM Club" is not a story. It has all the lessons required to succeed in our personal, family and professional lives. Robin compels us to change for better, with his signature quote, "Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end." He has introduced several innovative infographics to help readers understand his masterly concepts as he passionately narrates his story. There are also several cinematic twists and turns to keep the readers bound to the book. And of-course there are many of his game changing formulas. The book can easily be made into a motion picture as it follows Aaron Sorkin's 3-act structure. And now Robin has become a poet also! There are 2 - 3 beautiful poems.

Here are the three most important take-home messages for me from this brand new Robin's page-turner:

1. "Life's is too short to play small with your talents."2. "Your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars, and your doubts are thieves."3. "The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead."

Robin has been my Dronacharya, and I hope this review of this Ekalavya for his book will be an apt Guru Dakshina (Royalty!).

Top critical review

As I invested 11 precious hours of my life on reading this book cover to cover ; I think I'm eligible to comment on its content . Then let me inform you friends that "ANYTHING BUT CONTENT " is present in this book . The book starts with a story at a pace so slow that it tests your patience to the extent of boredom . But I kept my patience and continued . And you know what I found ? Initial part of book is full of long insipid monologues and YOU CAN SKIP FIRST 8 CHAPTERS ( 26% OF BOOK ) WITHOUT ANY GUILT . The author present only vague data and fancy quotes copied from internet or bestseller books . There is NO SOLID , RELIABLE & PRACTICAL ADVICE as you expect from a (highly marketed ) Master called Robin Sharma . This is not a time management / life management book . It seems to be a boring travelogue of some eccentric rich person. The idea of its creators is " WHEN YOU ARE LACKING A SCRIPT ; THEN CREATE A SCENE " . Let me elaborate this . Here is a piece from masterpiece taken as it is . { An assistant wearing a crisp shirt the color of the sky and pressed Bermuda shorts the hue of a tomato, with red leather sandals, ran down from the home of the titan of industry. } I must tell you that almost 80 % of the book is full of such paragraphs where Cars , Helicopters , Beaches , islands , vineyards , female character's blouse fitting is discussed when you are expecting some life changing advice . There is also a Non sense chapter on Taj Mahal . I want to ask the author what emperor Shah Jahan's (debatable) love for his wife has to do with my morning routine ?In the conclusion , I must say that author didn't put serious efforts while writing this book . When you are popular celebrity ; you develop a tendency to RELY MORE ON MARKETING & LESS ON CRAFT . And that's what Sharma Ji did . It is an avoidable book . Amazon's format doesn't allow my to rate anything lesser than 1 ; otherwise I wanted to rate it 0.5 .

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As I invested 11 precious hours of my life on reading this book cover to cover ; I think I'm eligible to comment on its content . Then let me inform you friends that "ANYTHING BUT CONTENT " is present in this book . The book starts with a story at a pace so slow that it tests your patience to the extent of boredom . But I kept my patience and continued . And you know what I found ? Initial part of book is full of long insipid monologues and YOU CAN SKIP FIRST 8 CHAPTERS ( 26% OF BOOK ) WITHOUT ANY GUILT . The author present only vague data and fancy quotes copied from internet or bestseller books . There is NO SOLID , RELIABLE & PRACTICAL ADVICE as you expect from a (highly marketed ) Master called Robin Sharma . This is not a time management / life management book . It seems to be a boring travelogue of some eccentric rich person. The idea of its creators is " WHEN YOU ARE LACKING A SCRIPT ; THEN CREATE A SCENE " . Let me elaborate this . Here is a piece from masterpiece taken as it is . { An assistant wearing a crisp shirt the color of the sky and pressed Bermuda shorts the hue of a tomato, with red leather sandals, ran down from the home of the titan of industry. } I must tell you that almost 80 % of the book is full of such paragraphs where Cars , Helicopters , Beaches , islands , vineyards , female character's blouse fitting is discussed when you are expecting some life changing advice . There is also a Non sense chapter on Taj Mahal . I want to ask the author what emperor Shah Jahan's (debatable) love for his wife has to do with my morning routine ?In the conclusion , I must say that author didn't put serious efforts while writing this book . When you are popular celebrity ; you develop a tendency to RELY MORE ON MARKETING & LESS ON CRAFT . And that's what Sharma Ji did . It is an avoidable book . Amazon's format doesn't allow my to rate anything lesser than 1 ; otherwise I wanted to rate it 0.5 .

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Morning Miracle by Hal Elrod is way better than this One of the crap. You'll get Idea after reading Kindle sample ebook of both books. Don't waste money. Always read sample first before any book purchase. Lesson learnt.

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Ever since I joined PGIMER, Chandigarh as a postgraduate resident, automatically I had become a life member of 5 AM Club. Whatever I am today, I attribute it to this 'keystone' habit of mine. Robin Sharma's new book, "The 5 AM club" has further reinforced my belief in rising early in the morning.

Robin Sharma has emerged as a master storyteller ever since his first book "The monk who sold his Ferrari," published way back in 1997. I read that book sometime around the year 2000. And ever since then, I have become his ardent fan. I have the entire collection of his books, and personally, I have been benefitted in every walk of my life. (I hope he does not ask for a royalty!)

Robin created a lot of buzz around this new book for the past four years, and he has lived up to the expectations. "The 5 AM Club" is not a story. It has all the lessons required to succeed in our personal, family and professional lives. Robin compels us to change for better, with his signature quote, "Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end." He has introduced several innovative infographics to help readers understand his masterly concepts as he passionately narrates his story. There are also several cinematic twists and turns to keep the readers bound to the book. And of-course there are many of his game changing formulas. The book can easily be made into a motion picture as it follows Aaron Sorkin's 3-act structure. And now Robin has become a poet also! There are 2 - 3 beautiful poems.

Here are the three most important take-home messages for me from this brand new Robin's page-turner:

1. "Life's is too short to play small with your talents."2. "Your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars, and your doubts are thieves."3. "The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead."

Robin has been my Dronacharya, and I hope this review of this Ekalavya for his book will be an apt Guru Dakshina (Royalty!).

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This is the best book i have read in my life!!!!! This is one book that could change your life forever. It could be your doorway to new realms of happiness, peace, prosperity in your life. Also please consider gifting this book to your near and dear ones (this would indirectly contribute to fighting battle against leprosy)

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I became a huge fan of Robin Sharma after I read Monk who sold the Ferrari. But all his work after that has been harping around the same lessons and insights. His books are becoming less novel and more repetitive. Even his characters have lost the novelty.

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Title looked attractive the reason I pre-ordered for it. But it did not create interest from beginning.....starting with protagonist's desire to commit suicide....that too by taking a 'gigantic bottle of pills' (typical problem of substance abuse found in the developed world, as per the World Happiness Report-2018)! Okay, may be the writer has tried to show the importance of his ideas by starting with extreme negative!

Secondly, the book seems promoting his profession as 'motivational speaker' where he is most in demand!

Actually, the book seems targeting the audience of western world who have seldom been taught the importance of waking early in the morning (though 'early to bed & early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise' is a western old proverb!).....! But it "fails to impress" the typical Indian following Ayurvedic and Yogic way of life where waking up by 3am (Brahmamuhurt) is followed! May be advising for waking up by 3AM would have very difficult to follow in the western world as people remain awake late night!

This is another thing that very few Indians today wake up early morning or before sunrise at least what to ask at 3am! For this we can also blame the western development model promoted by the World Bank/IMF, influenced by specially the USA...! This development model gave rise to a different lifestyle in which waking up early from bed was not professed. A time came when whole world aspiring the so-called process of development somehow started following 'the American way of life' (the way of life which was suggested by the experts USA to change to protect environment and reverse the process of climate change at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 2002. This was bluntly and shamelessly rejected by the then US President J W Bush saying American life is not made for compromises!). So, we have an imposed lifestyle and have forgotten our indigenous knowledge of living our life. Robin Sharma from this perspective is doing great job- teaching Americans to change their lifestyle. This will make citizens of other countries also to change their lifestyle.

In India, already the IT industry in Bangalore has started facing the crisis (losses running over 3 billion US dollars) due health and substance abuse issues of the IT professionals......as most of them dream/copy the US lifestyle. For such people this will be a "good book", undoubtedly.

Had this book been written more concisely it would have left better impact as the old wisdom of 'early to bed and early to rise' is "strongly" backed by recent scientific research and proofs!

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This book is nothing more than a collection of quotes from here and there.Quotes have been deliberately put into a not-at-all impressive story by stating examples like he wore a hat/tee-shirt/watch blah blah which had this or that quote written.Highly disappointed by this book. I wanted more of an actionable checklist to install the habit of waking of early. Only 3 pages in this book are worth reading if you want to save some time and effort.Page No 232 describing the pre-sleep ritual of iconic producersPage No 235 The Amazing Day DeconstructionPage No 275 Sort of Daily Affirmation for mental toughness and realizing importance of time